As the denim marketplace continues to show moderate unit and financial growth year over year, ***** as demand for Blue's denim products shows wide seasonal variation, having a solid forecast to plan both advertising budgets and production from are critical.

Using a 2 year weighted average forecasting technique where the first of the two years is weighted with.9 and the second with.1, a global market size of $37B is forecasted. This translates into 742M units worldwide, with an upper r*****ge of 777M units globally based on the forecast. Producti***** is set at 45M units, with a potenti*****l uplift to 54M ***** possible.

Secondly, projecting sales based on ***** budget spend has been completed, using the ad budget as the independent variable in regression analys*****. The correl*****ion coefficient of sales with the advertising budget is.96, which is very strong statistically, and shows that the ***** budget needs to be at least matching $162M if the company is to attain its primary sales objective.

Expected sales for ***** year ***** $2.4M which ***** the correlation coefficients completed in ***** analysis would lead to a $162M advertis*****g budget. Setting the advertising budget ***** $169M is perfectly aligned ***** the correlation coefficient of *****. The strength of th***** correlation is stat*****tically significant ***** supports previous analyses into the impact of advertising spending on